Nextend Social Login documentation

Getting started with Nextend Social Login

Nextend Social Login is a professional, easy to use and free WordPress plugin that lets your visitors to register and login to your site using their social profiles instead of forcing them to spend valuable time to fill the registration form. They don’t need to wait for validation emails or keep track of their username and password.

Getting started with Nextend Social Login

You can install Nextend Social Login through Plugins > Add New interface. Just search for the plugin’s name then hit Install and Activate. You can also read a detailed installation guide.

Providers

Providers are the services which the visitors can use to register and log in to your site. Before you could use them, they need to be set up.

Publish

When you want to display the login buttons, you must keep in mind that, Nextend Social Login Free only places the login buttons automatically to the /wp-login.php form and the login forms made using the wp_login_form() function.

However with some work, you are able to put the login buttons to custom places or in the sidebar. Basically this can be achieved by:

Important note

Nextend Social Login Pro Addon can also place the login buttons to the WooCommerce, BuddyPress, MemberPress, UserPro, Ultimate Member, Easy Digital Downloads forms and also to the WordPress Comment forms.

Global settings

When you want to display the login buttons, you must keep in mind that, Nextend Social Login Free only places the login buttons automatically to the /wp-login.php form and the login forms made using the wp_login_form() function.

You can configure the login button style and position and set a fix redirect URL after login and register.

General settings

Privacy which is related to GDPR

Login form

Getting started with Nextend Social Login Pro Addon

The Pro Addon for Nextend Social Login contains extra features and new providers. You can purchase Pro Addon on the product page.

See the Pro Addon’s changelog.

Getting started with Nextend Social Login Pro Addon

You can install the Pro Addon easily from the free Nextend Social Login. You can also read the detailed installation guide.

Global settings

You can configure the login button style and position and set a fix redirect URL after login and register. You can also find comment, WooCommerce and BuddyPress settings here.

Pro settings for providers

Each provider has several Pro settings to customize the sign in experience. You can use them to ask email address or username upon registration, or disable the login for specific roles. You can learn what each setting does at the Pro Settings for Providers page.

What to read next?

Providers are the services which the visitors can use to register and log in to your site. Before you could use them, they need to be set up.